1. to pronounce (a normally voiced sound) without vibration of the vocal cords
Usage: phonetics; linguistics

Examples

• In some dialects, speakers unvoice the final consonants in words.
• The linguist studied how children learn to unvoice certain sounds.
• When whispering, we naturally unvoice all speech sounds.
• The phonetics teacher explained how to unvoice the ‘d’ sound to make a ‘t’.
• Some languages systematically unvoice consonants in specific positions.